The discreditation of mad people within legal and psychiatric decision making: a systems theory approach

Luhmann defined social systems as structured around specific social codes, and comprised of the communications relating to that code. This thesis asks how the phenomenon of madness can be understood within this framework and argues that mad utterances are statements or acts which cannot be parsed ac...

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Main Author: Munro, Nell
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11716/

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